Honest good humor is the oil and wine of a merry meeting, and there is no jovial companionship equal to that where the jokes are rather small and laughter abundant.

  • -- Washington Irving 华盛顿欧文

诚实的好幽默是愉快的聚会的油和酒,没有一种愉快的友谊比得上那些笑话相当小而笑声却很丰富的友谊。

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An animal that is very abundant, before it gets extinct, it becomes rare. So you don't lose abundant animals. You always lose rare animals. Therefore, they're not perceived as a big loss.

一种数量非常丰富的动物,在它灭绝之前,就变得稀有了。所以你不会失去大量的动物。你总是失去稀有动物。因此,他们不会被认为是一个巨大的损失。

Jazz is like wine. When it is new, it is only for the experts, but when it gets older, everybody wants it.

爵士乐就像葡萄酒。当它是新的,它只是为专家,但当它变老,每个人都想要它。

There is no brilliant single stroke that is going to transform the water into wine or straw into gold.

没有任何一笔能把水变成葡萄酒或稻草变成黄金。

After nourishment, shelter, and companionship, stories are the thing we need most in the world.

除了营养、住所和陪伴,故事是我们在这个世界上最需要的东西。